Improvement in adjustable window-cornices



J.-W. CAMPBELL. Adjustable Window-Cornice.

No. 214,882. Patented April 29,1879.

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N. PETERS, HOTO- GRAFHER. WASHINGTON, I10.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JAMES W. CAMPBELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE WlNDOW-CORNICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,882, dated April 29, 1879; application filed March 28, 1879.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide an ornamental window-cornice that, without being cut or altered in any way, can be fitted to any window.

The cornice is constructed of two like pieces, A and B, that slide upon each other, each provided with a return piece, 0, and a slotted bracket, D, whose slot conforms in its outlines to the surface-lines of the cornice itself. One of these brackets is set upon and permanently fixed to an end of each piece, A and B, and embraces the other piece, be it A or B, that is made to slide in its slot. This slot, it will be seen, is as wide as the combined thickness of the two pieces.

In order to secure a good fitting of the pieces A and B as they slide upon one another within the brackets, the lines and curves of their upper and under surfaces are shaped alike.

The faces of the brackets maybe fashioned in various ornamental designs, as together they form the center-piece or ornament of the cor- 11106- The cornices may be constructed with various ranges of adjustment and of any desired length; and a stop, a, fixed on therear surface of the inner sliding piece, B, will serve to prevent the extension of the cornice afterit shall have been fitted to a window.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A window-cornice constructed in two like parts that slide upon each other for the purpose of adjustment, and that when put together form a complete cornice, with centerpiece, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. An adjustable window-cornice composed of two like front pieces, A and B, two like return pieces, 0 O, and two like slotted brackets or center-pieces, D D, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The stop a, in combination with the front pieces, A and B, return pieces 0 G, and slotted brackets D D, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. An adjustable window-cornice made in two like parts, in which the lines and curves of the front and rear surfaces of each front piece are alike and conforming to the outlines of the slots in the brackets in which they slide, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES W. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

G. SEDGWIcK, I. I. STOVER. 

